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by ds9 13y ago
Interesting article - the title however is not only misleading but disturbing. I clicked because it implied that the FBI had dispensed with the inconvenient laws and judicial system and just started killing fugitives when it found them. I m
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by ds9 13y ago
Right, I think this is referring to a technique described in some of the earlier info releases, where the agency intercepts requests and send a fake response before the real one arrives, and ditching the real response. I'm not clear on
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by ds9 13y ago
"Those people have been indoctrinated since birth to see us as evil invaders ... our population isn't motivated in the same way" It doesn't take religion or "indoctrination since birth" for people to see an inv
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by ds9 13y ago
It's possible you may have misunderstood or misinterpreted posters here. There is no inconsistency in preferring a more pleasant workspace, while also pointing out to the employers that it makes software people more productive. One pro
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by ds9 13y ago
"Its not that anyone should always expect to pay for things that are beneficial, its the fact that people who very recently WORKED to create the very thing you are benefiting from should be PAID for their work." Why did the camera
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by ds9 13y ago
Most of the rest of the page is discussions of business models, the merits of 'piracy' (economic/service-wise and ethical) -- but the situation of the developers is the important issue. If there is a legal decision that open-
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by ds9 13y ago
I posted similar comments before seeing yours. Yes M-B is probably pseudo-science (and of course this poll is unscientific). However, I suspect that some moderate (better-than-chance) degree of validity has kept people using it all these y
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by ds9 13y ago
I took the test 3 times, at longish intervals, each sincerely and without much recollection of the questions (for informal workplace occassions) - and scored INTP, INTJ, INTP. Remarkably, these patterns are found in a small percentile in th
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by ds9 13y ago
I actually think the article has some value (rubber ducking is good :), but continuing the parent's line of criticism: "Now step through the code using a debugger". That's all he says about that! Even for experienced dev
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Even HTTPS can leak your PRIVATE browsing(theregister.co.uk)
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by ds9 13y ago
"trying to distribute" is a false characterization of "posting a hyperlink". It was factual, newsworthy information that certain documents were present at a certain address. Regardless of intent, communicating this fact
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New Google WiFi app could automatically log you into Starbucks(engadget.com)
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by ds9 13y ago
"the psychological effect of borrowing from the government - I think people tend to feel safer doing this than borrowing from an obviously competitive private firm. If you read the article, the casual attitude of student debtors to def
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by ds9 13y ago
Google does not reproduce whole articles, only short excerpts to help searchers decide whether it's relevant to what they're looking for - and with clear indication of the source and in a context where it's understood that Go
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by ds9 13y ago
Right, it's all based on this lack of configuration, and could be avoided by users. It's alternately amusing, annoying and irksome to me that the researchers propose to fix the situation with a "product that could be install
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by ds9 13y ago
For multiple reasons including those stated by mrtksn, "stealing" is an unsuitable term - it invites an ideological digression on copyright, property rights, law and justice. However, the situation hanselman describes is certainly
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by ds9 13y ago
Exactly, thank you for posting that. The "modest proposal" assumes the problem is only "seeing ads", but has nothing to offer someone who objects to being tracked across the web. And I just want to point out, this refute
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by ds9 13y ago
Apart from other meanings mentioned here, in US legal history the "blue sky" laws came in to stop people selling securities for bogus or unlikely business ventures. I don't think OFAC is necessarily directly concerned with th
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by ds9 13y ago
Some of the Linux GUIs used to have a feature that, if you set the mouse to left-handed, the cursor would tilt the other way. It was very ergonomic and seemed natural (and I would like it back :)
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by ds9 13y ago
Government already can do that by co-opting the phone companies. @wehadfun, I like the general concept of identifying and taking action against the bad actors, but there are two flaws in your plan. (a) Most of the users of stolen phones are
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by ds9 13y ago
I'm not necessarily defending the mandate, but maybe I can clarify the concept behind it. It's not a case of legislators saying "it would be better to have less phone theft so let's try to reduce it this way" - inst
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by ds9 13y ago
The usual interpretation has been that UKgov was clueless about technology, refusing to recognize that there were other copies elsewhere. But maybe they knew that it was only "security theatre" and the intent was to only make thre
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by ds9 13y ago
It is absolutely correct to question the underlying premises. All the modes have them. It's just that the evaluations are not amenable to the same standards. E.g., you can cast doubt on a scientific hypothesis of "A causes B"
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by ds9 13y ago
Thanks coldtea, I think you're onto something important. I'll try to expand on it, tho it's hard to do this briefly. People reason (and discuss) in several modes, which are ordinarily mixed freely. Deductive, a.k.a. logical
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by ds9 13y ago
Are you calling it propaganda only because the authors used the term "civil war"? Or are you saying that the statements about the origin of the conflict, in the early slides, are untrue? If the latter, please say why you think so
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by ds9 13y ago
Another case worse than partially-hijacked trips was mentioned in a slashdot post, and if I recall correctly, there was a vague reference to the autonomous-car-makers considering it, and it has bothered me ever since. Imagine a situation wh
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by ds9 13y ago
I wondered this too, until I saw the Apple logo. That would be a trademark violation. Maybe the forum mods wanted to avoid having the forum involved if Apple went after the poster. Without the logo, Apple's complaint would have to be b
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by ds9 13y ago
How can one detect whether this is happening?
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by ds9 13y ago
Normally DNS is on port 53, but if your ISP is preventing you from DNS requests to servers other than theirs on port 53 you can use the other one. 'DNSSEC' means DNSSEC is supported by the server if your resolver can use it - it&#
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by ds9 13y ago
And then they have your entire history of internet activity, matched to you name, address and CC number . Fine if all you want is reliablility. For those who want to imped surveillance it is as bad as the ISP.

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